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 work in the different parts of the gardens; and on her way from the Temple de l'Amour to the Hameau, she had passed the prairie, and had seen two labourers in their picturesque brown tunics and coloured chaperons rouges filling a hired cart with sticks.

Crossing the Vergelay bridge she had approached the cavernous mouth of her favourite grotto, over which ivy fell in graceful wreaths. For the first time in her experience